A staffer for Herschel Walker’s Senate campaign says that GOP activist Matt Schlapp made sexual advances toward them last October.
According to The Daily Beast, the staffer said the incident occurred the night of Oct. 19, when Schlapp, chair of the American Conservative Union and lead organizer for the influential Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAP), “groped” and “fondled” his crotch in his car against his will after buying him drinks at two different bars.
The staffer described Schlapp, who had traveled to Georgia for a Walker campaign event as one of the most influential figures in national conservative politics.
The staffer said that Schlapp said that had wanted to spend the evening discussing the staffer’s professional future.
It was a public space, and I was thinking that he got the hint. I did not want to embarrass him.
But it escalated…”
In his late 30s, the staffer recalled that as he drove Schlapp back to the hotel, Schlapp put his hand on his leg, then reached over and “fondled” his crotch at length while he was frozen in shock, calling it
scarring” and “humiliating.”
When they arrived at the hotel, Schlapp invited him to his room but the staffer declined and left
as quickly as I could.”
He informed the campaign about the incident the next morning.
While Schlapp has welcomed the LGBTQ community to CPAC, but the conference draws criticism for embracing anti-LGBTQ extremists at the event.
In Feb. 2015, the year Schlapp assumed his ACU leadership, the Log Cabin Republicans—an advocacy group for gay conservatives—complained that CPAC had blocked them as a sponsor for the third straight year.
A week later, Schlapp reversed that policy.
If you are a conservative who is gay, you have a right to be here…”
Schlapp has also come under fire for his defense of alleged sexual abusers like Trump and Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, who was at at the Schlapps’ home this December with Rep. Matt Gaetz, the subject of a federal sex trafficking investigation.
EXCLUSIVE: American Conservative Union chairman Matt Schlapp allegedly groped the crotch of a male staffer for Herschel Walker's campaign in October. https://t.co/LNCr1AA9sK
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) January 6, 2023
This story is rock solid. Matt Schlapp accused of groping a male staffer on Herschel Walker's campaign — and the campaign offered "nothing but support" for the staffer at the time.
— Michelangelo Signorile (@MSignorile) January 6, 2023
Schlapp has allowed the most horrific anti-LGBTQ bile at CPAC. Another GOP hypocrite. https://t.co/LNQE5aAWtF
Think of all the anti-LGBTQ speakers and hatred Matt Schlapp has promoted and profited off of at CPAC for years. Meanwhile he is crotch grabbing male staffers? Fuck this guy. pic.twitter.com/u3hgiXPKWP
— Mr. Newberger (@jeremynewberger) January 6, 2023
(via The Daily Beast)
